Ruislip was first noted in the Doomsday Book in 1066, at this time the surrounding fields made up the Manor though in size it was already a parish due to a priest being part of the inhabitants. The Manor had various Saxon and Norman Lords before being gifted to the Norman Benedictine monastery of Bec and ultimately becoming Crown land from the 1400s. The last Lord of the Manor was Kings College, Cambridge.
In 1801 there was still only about 1,012 people but the arrival of the Metropolitan Railway in 1904 began a rapid expansion. This was the explosion of Metroland.
The sale of 186 acres of land from Kings College to developer George Ball started the building of the Manor Homes Estate between 1933 and 1939 in a single concentrated burst providing 2, 200 modern homes.
The small railway halt was no longer viable for the expanding population and the new station of Ruislip Manor was built.
Thousands of working class families moved out from London and for the first time became home owners as well northern workers encouraged south to set up home.
The Manor Estate consisted of three main types of homes of 2 bed and three bed homes, referred to as types A, B and C.
Current building guidelines seek to keep all new residential building on the Estate framed in the same style and look of the original 1930’s Manor Estate.
